Woohoo... Sometimes - you may know from yourself - you are so proud about something that you want to share it with others. This time it's my MVP status renew for 2003. :-)
Just got a package from Microsoft USA which includes my MVP documents for 2003 - yippee... :-)
So I'm proud to announce here that also in 2003 I'm a Microsoft MVP Mobile Devices. If you aren't aware of what a Microsoft MVP is, have a look on MVPS.org and its great explanation.

I've got asked by some of you whatâ€™s with the Audiovox GPRS CF Card review and I just got an answer form Audiovox:

Hey Arne,
My sincerest apologies. Our shipment was delayed from the east, and it should be arriving in our warehouse by the end of the week. We should then be in a position to get one out to you the soonest.

So I hope to get the card as soon as possible to be reviewed here for sure shortly after it

You may wonder why there wasn't any news the past days; well it was because a spontaneous trip to Italy. I was in Tuscany and Rome for some days and visited my fellow MVP Giorgio Cifani in northern Italy where I also met my fellow MVP Marlof Bregonje. We had a great day yesterday at Giorgio's house with a very tasty BBQ and for sure some Pocket PC discussions... ;-)

Beside this I've also tested my GPRS enabled Omnitel SIM card (you may remember the success less trial in June) and this time it worked great - more or less. But I will cover this with a separate column later.

In Tuscany I've visited Siena (a really nice Gothic city where I will upload two Today Themes later too with pictures I made there) and in Rome I've seen the Pope in the Vatican. Okay, I'm a Protestant so I'm not related to the Catholic Church but it's always interesting to see someone like the Pope face to face.

Wow, what a great success of PPCW.Net! Yesterday night the 1200th user subscribed to PPCW.Net Wireless â€“ Mazingo. :-) Thanks for it anonymous (unfortunately I donâ€™t know the subscriber namesâ€¦)

What makes me wonder is that more than 90 % of you subscribed to the Full channel and not the Lite channel. But itâ€™s okay - personally I also prefer the Full channel.

If you arenâ€™t a Mazingo subscriber today, subscribe here for free or if you are already a Mazingo customer but havenâ€™t added PPCW.Net to your account you can do it with the buttons from the upper right box!

Don't expect any news today. Yesterday evening I've decided to redesign/redevelop the Wireless Edition of PPCW.Net (mobile.ppcw.net). Which means for me as a non-developer taking the code from my existing Content Management System/MySQL database and trying to understand. After I got the meanings of the database (well, understanding a database shouldn't be the big deal ;-) I've entered the world of PHP again...
This is even harder but I'm on a good way I think. I will completely redesign/reedit PPCW.Net Wireless (thanks to Calin Brandabur for giving me some hints if I don't know how to do what I want to do ;-) and yes - the first result looks pretty promising, at least for me:

What I try to improve now is the availability of articles - not like in the past where you get access to the latest 10 stories only. At least

I'm glad to announce datanywhere.com as a new affiliate partner of PPCW.Net and right now - datanywhere.com has some cool xda products you might not should miss.

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Here we go for the most interesting new products for the o2 xda/T-Mobile Phone Edition:

Universal Accessory Adapter iPAQ 3600 to xda/Phone EditionWith this little adapter, you can use all of your iPAQ 3600 or 3700 series accessories with your o2 xda/T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition
Use any of your favorite accessories, like the Targus Stowaway keyboard, GPS receiver, your Serial or USB AutoSync cables and more!!!

Price: $29.95
Availability: Pre-Order. This accessory will start shipping on the last week of September.

Sync-N-Charge USB Cable for T-Mobile/O2 XDANow you can SYNC your xda with your Desktop or Notebook computer and charge the battery at the same time, with the same cable! No more bulky AC adapters or cradles to carry around. A datanywhere.com exclusive, this is the hottest accessory for the mobile professional with an xda! Just plug in the USB connector to your Desktop or Notebook computer and the other end to your xda. That's all it takes!

A lot of you asked what favor you can do me as a thank you for my site. Well, I have mostly everything I need but I'm in need of a new cell phone. The point is that my Sony Ericsson T68I looks a little bit ugly after 2 month but still love the functionalities. So I thought about a new T68 and thanks to Andrew Farkas, now I know which model will be my new cell phone... ;-) If anyone of you want to order it for me as a thank you gift, please don't hesitate... :->

The first of eight limited edition phones, the Peter Aloisson Diamante T68, with 849 diamonds beautifully set one by one, is now available for immediate order. The phone itself has a solid 18-carat yellow gold cover, 18-carat

Congratulations to jackjavo, dcpc, forrestk, ScottB and roblee2! You won one SideX application you can select from.
You should already got an E-Mail with the instructions from me (sent to your PPCW.Net Forum E-Mail address) how to get the registration key.

Because of the massive spam E-Mails I receive every day, I've removed the PPCW.Net E-Mail addresses from the site - sorry. However, if you want to contact PPCW.Net you can still use the "Contact PPCW.Net" form from the top bar for all kind of general inquiries and questions or just use the "author form" by clicking the author name on the top of every message.
I hope this helps me to reduce the spam in my Inbox and sorry for all you guys out there who have to use a form now to drop me a message.